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I, Humphrey Reynolds of Loughscur, Co. Leitrim, bequeath my body to be buried in ffenagh church.

I leave to my wife Russell Reynolds alias Ware during her life, my Manor of Loughscur and the twenty cartons of land as it was granted to my father and to me by general Letters Patent from His Majesty. She shall have disposal of the rents &c. until the next May after her death and then my son and heir James is to enjoy the said Manor of Loughscur. I leave to my heir the Abbey of Derran in Co. of Roscommon. I give him my parsonage of Manteroly, Co. Leitrim. I give to my son James my interest in the Manor of Laghin as the same was granted to my brother Charles by Letters Patent, except the quarter of Laghin which I leave to my son William Reynolds. My cozen Henry fitzwilliam Reynolds; a daughter Susanna; a daughter Mary; a daughter Katherine 10/- because she married without my consent; my daughter Elizabeth (unmarried). My daughter Susanna's children...(unreadable)...her two daughters and 10£ to her son Owen. My daughter Mary Cefallge. Mary my son John's daughter 100s. when 18 years old. To my son William the quarter of Laghin, and for want of heirs to my son James. I leave to my son Charles the Carton of Edenmore and Dromcroman &c. I leave to my nephew Christopher Reynolds (his father dead) the Carton of Leitrim near Laghin. My wife and my son James to be executors, and my cozen Henry Warren and my cozen Brian Jones to be overseers. Dated the 26 July 1660.

(Signed) H. REYNOLDS. There is no note as to the proving of this will. H.F.R.

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2. The "Act of Explanation" (17 and 18 Charles II. Chapter 2) (Irish) by Section 139 enacted That JAMES REYNOLDS of Loughscur in the Co. of Leitrim Esquire (see ante, p. 5, col. 1) should be restored to the possession of all the lands which the father of said James Reynolds was seized of on 22 October, 1641 (i.e., the date of the breaking out of the Irish Rebellion temp. Charles I.).

In pursuance of that Act of Parliament the said James Reynolds obtained a grant (by Patent dated 10 Nov. 18 Charles II., pursuant to certificate dated 15 June, which was enrolled on 23 Nov.. 1666) of " Lough

scur Castle, Manor, Town and Lands 124 acres (Irish) unprofitable-Scardan, 244 acres, together with the Loughs, Lakes and Langnamarne, the fishing thereof, and the Rivulets, called Loughcarton, Dowlagh and Islands called Inchentancaflan, Rossin, Ilamohan and the Islands to the said Lands belonging. The Town and Lands of Aghascurr and Dromconga 424 acres. There follow on the names of 48 other properties; including the site, &c., of the Priory or Monastery of the Channyus of Durran alias Durham; the Rectory and Vicarage of Tullagh and Kilbride and all tithes, &c., the tithes, &c., of Towns and Lands of Carrow, Baynagh, Ballycore, Mullamuck, Kiltiege, Clonherke, and Dromdanych belonging to the said Priory; and the Presentation of the Rural Rectory of Munteroles."

The total quantity of land in the confirmatory patent was upwards of 6,661 acres in Leitrim, and upwards of 1,000 acres in Roscommon Counties; while in several other patents of the day were contained savings of his rights in the Co. of Roscommon, as also those of Humphrey Reynolds.

3. The Will of JOHN REYNOLDS of Loughscur (see ante, p. 5, col. 1). I, John Reynolds of Loughscur in the Co. of Leitrim. My body to be buried in the parish church of ffonach [Fenagh] in the tomb of my ancestors. My farm in ffonach, Ballynoghroch and Kileronnan. To my son John Reynolds. The Lease of the townland of Ballyclare in Co. of Antrim (being part of said wife's portion) to my dear Mother Mrs. Jane Pottinger. The sum of £62 now in the hands of my Mother. Donvalan to pay unto My sister Sandy the sum of £200 sterg. in full discharge of her marriage portion. executors to sell my blacke cattle horses and sheep with the assistance of John Patton, James Patton and James Reinolds. To Mrs. Katherine Payton and Mrs. Jenny Payton. My cousins James Reinolds and Charles Reinolds. My dear Mother in law Mrs. Jane Pottinger and my wife to be sole executors.

My

(Signed), JOHN REYNOLDS. Signed at Carrickfergus 14 Aug., 1699, in the house of his mother-in-law Mrs. Jane Pottinger.

Granted 8 Dec. 1699 to his wife Jane Reynolds alias Pottinger.

H. FITZGERALD REYNOLDS.

JORIS HOEFNAGEL (see

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'Mem- NEWLY IDENTIFIED LINES BY orabilia,' cl. 344). The plan reSOUTHEY.-It has been long known ferred to as "London" at the reference that Robert Southey assisted Maria del is evidently that by Hoefnagel, which was Occidente (Maria Gowen Brooks) in preparpublished at Cologne in the first volume of ing for the press her epic poem Zóphiël, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum,' 1572, the or the Bride of Seven-founded on the editors being Braun and Hogenberg. It adventures of the maiden Sara, whose husis true that the steeple of old St. Paul's, bands were successively slain by the demon taken down after damage by fire in 1561, Asmodeus before they could embrace the is represented as still standing. But bride, as one may read in chapters five to Hoefnagel, born of rich parents at seven of the Apocryphal book of Tobit.' Antwerp in 1545, could not possibly have Southey went so far as to say a certain song produced this elaborate work at the age of in Mrs. Brooks's poem was not unworthy of 15. Though he studied art assiduously as Sappho. And Charles Lamb, Poe, Whittier, a boy and in early manhood, he did not Griswold, and Prof. Saintsbury have all become a professional artist until his father thought well of Maria, who certainly wrote lost nearly everything through the sack and fifty or more lines of the highest poetry, partial destruction of Antwerp, in what was and much more that is still worth reading, known as the Spanish Fury of 1576. including one of the first psychological novels, Idomen.'

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Why in a view of 1572 the steeple of St. Paul's, destroyed eleven years earlier, should be shown, is a problem that I for one canIt is an interesting fact that the print resembles in several respects the plan of London ascribed to Ralph Agas, which, however, shows St. Paul's without the spire. It is suggested that both plans were founded to some extent on an earlier one no longer in existence.

Now, it occurred to me that if Southey prepared the work for the press, he might to some extent have shared in its composition. But fortunately this question of authorship can now be settled, very much to Maria del Occidente's credit. The original manuscript of Zóphiël' is now before me

that used by the printer, and, to judge from its patched and corrected state, and Mrs. Brooks's known dislike of writing, the only complete MS. ever prepared. Each canto is carefully dated, and all antedate the meeting of the laureate and the lady. The corrections are practically all in the very peculiar hand of the authoress, save perhaps for a single word here or there, and one notable exception An

Hoefnagel did much other work for the Civitates Orbis Terrarum,' including various plans and views of English places. It ran to six volumes, and the last volume was not published until 1618. If so it must have come out some years after his death. He had a son, Jakob, who was also an artist and helped in this work. edition of the Civitates,' consisting of five volumes, came out in 1599, and in this the engravings are pleasantly coloured. The plates had perhaps become the worse for wear. I should be glad to know if any of them were coloured before that date. An uncoloured copy of the London plan from the first volume was admirably reproduced for the London Topographical Society in 1882, and is still in print. In the present exhibition at the Burling. ton Fine Arts Club is the well-known oil picture, which belongs to the Marquis of Salisbury, of a fête at Bermondsey. The exhibition also contains a beautifully executed allegorical miniature, with subsidiary designs. One of them has by way of background to the figure of an old man seated, a sea-coast view with St. Michael's Mount in the distance. It is dated 1571. These are both by Hoefnagel. PHILIP NORMAN.

a passage of three lines. Southey told Caroline Bowles he had persuaded Mrs. Brooks to tone down certain too daring passages, and he may have caused the cancellation of one or two stanzas. But in one case the major portion of a stanza is crossed out, and new lines substituted in a hand clearly not Maria's and pretty certainly Southey's.

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I here give the 2nd quatrain of the 2nd canto of Zóphiël as published in 1833, putting in italics the words Mrs. Brooks did not write, which, I believe, Southey did: :

Bridegrooms like him, they knew his fate;

yet, bent

On their desires, resolved that fate to brave;

So, in succession, each a victim went, Borne from the bridal chamber to the grave.

THOMAS OLLIVE MABBOTT

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the only person described as esquire." In 1596 his name still appears as the chief landowner, but it is written Ognoll, and he is then described as 'gentleman. The name does not occur in Camden's Visitation of Warwickshire, 1619,' nor is it mentioned under Temple Grafton in Dugdale's Warwickshire.' It is not in Marshall's Index of Pedigrees,' and I have nowhere been able to find it. It will be remembered that Temple Grafton is interesting in con

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AMBLING. The first quotations for this nection with Shakespeare's marriage, and

word and its derivatives are from Chaucer. I should be glad if MAJOR FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH or any other reader learned on the subject of the horse would tell me when horses first were trained to

amble, and whether any are still subjected to that training. If so for what purpose is it? If not, when did the practice cease? I should also be glad to know what methods the trainer uses; and what is the fastest pace of an ambler. I suppose it is very

much slower than the natural trot.

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R. E. L.

VINCENTIO LAURIOLA.-Can any light be thrown on this person, who is named in Webster's Duchess of Malfi' (IV. i. 110) as a famous worker in wax, and sculptor of the effigies of Antonio and her children which are used to torment the Duchess? Or, if he is an imaginary figure, what suggested the name? I can only conjecture that Webster's eye caught the name of the Cardinal Vincentio Laureus or Lauro (1523 -92) in de Thou's history, where it occurs close to an account of the life of Vittoria Accoramboni, the heroine of Webster's other great tragedy. But this is, of course, extremely problematic: and I should welcome something more definite.

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F. L. LUCAS. 'Overbury's ' CHAFF IN EGYPT.—In Character of An Ingrosser of Corne (1615) occurs the statement that he 'winnowes his corne in the night, lest, as the chaffe throwne upon the water, shew'd plenty in Egypt; so his (carried by the winde) should proclaime his abundance." What is the allusion to chaff in Egypt? I can find nothing in the Bible or in classical literature.

King's College, Cambridge.

F. L. LUCAS.

it may be of importance to discover who Ongnall was. I do not find him in the wills at Somerset House (P.C.C.) down to 1629. S. O. ADDY.

TIN IN CORNWALL.-What is the source of the statement of Southey (in 'The Doctor') : "Are there ten men in Cornwall who know that Medacritus was the name of the first man who carried tin from that part of the world?" In giving an account of the early history of tin in Cornwall it would add interest to name with authority the

first man who carried this metal beyond the sea, and more so if it were possible to give the approximate time when this took place.

G. A. R. GOYLE.

FIRST USE OF STONE-COAL.-Engaged in gathering data about the earliest use of stone-coal I came across the following statements:

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(1) In some old English coal mines stone implements have been found, from which it seems that the knowledge and use of coal preceded that of iron." (Meyer's Konv. Lexikon,' 1895.

(2) "Coal appears to have been discovered contemporaneously in China and in Europe, Roman authors refer to impure coal in the 2nd cent. B.C. In China a kind of stone which could be burnt like brush wood (ch'ai ho) is mentioned as having been known during the Han dynasty (B.C. 206 A.D. 23.)." (Encyclopedia Sinica,' Shanghai, 1917.).

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GEORGE ONGNALL, ESQUIRE, 1586.- MICHELANGELO'S

a Subsidy Roll of this year this man appears at the head of the list as the chief landowner in Temple Grafton, and he is

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G. A. R. GOYLE. MADONNA AT NOTRE DAME, BRUGES.-Can anyone inform me if there is foundation for a statement made to me in

1877

that the statue of Our Lady INSCRIPTION ON BRASS BOWL.

and the Holy Child by Michelangelo in the Church of Notre Dame at Bruges was originally intended for the Priory of Our Lady of Walsingham? It was affirmed that the vessel conveying the statue being chased by pirates ran aground on the Flanders coast, and the statue was placed, as а temporary measure, in a church near this spot; in the mean time news came that the Augustinian Priory of

Walsingham had been desecrated and dissolved by Henry VIII. The Augustinian Canons Regular of Notre Dame at Bruges claimed the statue as belonging to their order, and removed it to the place it now occupies in their church.

The statue represents the traditional pose of the Walsingham Madonna and Child.

I have also come across this statement, or one somewhat identical, in an old guide book, but do not recollect where.

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E. M. CROSS-IN-HAND.-Mr. Thomas Hardy, in Tess of the D'Urbervilles,' writes of Angel Clare having ascended in Dorsetshire to the untoward solitude of Cross-in-Hand," and he calls it an unholy The only Cross-in-Hand that I know is a post-office in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells, in Sussex, on the mainroad between Lewes, Sussex, and Ashford, Kent. Is that on the site of an unholy stone," and what is the legend attached thereto? Is there a Cross-in-Hand in Dorsetshire?

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JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

HUGH RONALDS, d. 1788.-Hugh Ronalds of Isleworth, whose will was proved March 3, 1788, left "to my son Hugh my white cornelian seal with the cypher and crest, and to my son Henry Clarke Ronalds my red cornelian seal with coat of arms.

These seals are believed to have borne

upon them respectively, A castle proper, and Quarterly. 1st: A lion rampant gules, and langued or. 2nd: Or, a dexter hand couped in fesse, holding a cross crosslet fetched in pale gules. 3rd: Or, a galley, her oars erected in saltire in a sea waved, in base proper a salmon naiant argent. 4th:

Argent, an oak tree proper growing out of

the base surmounted of an eagle or.

If any reader can give me any information as to the fate of these two seals or their present ownership, I should be most grateful.

CLIVE RUSSELL-PARSONS.

Around a circular design with lilies are engraved the following letters: MAGN SIGILLUM RAROLI DEI GRATIA FRANCORUM REGIS IN ABSENTIA.

Raroli may be a mistake for Caroli, and the reference seems to be to a French King Charles in exile. It would be interesting to know the exact circumstances of time and place. W. J. HARDING.

COL. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, C.B.

AND K.H.-This officer of H.M. 9th

Light Dragoons, who commanded the 2nd Cavalry Brigade at the battle of Sobraon, died in England on March 23, 1850. Was he the son of Richard Campbell, Esq., of Helentonmains, St. Quivox, Ayrshire, who was born on Aug. 25, 1788 ?

V. H.

VOLKOW: VOLKOV.-I should be glad of biographical details of the following, and also references to other published works by them:

T. Volkow, author of Nouvelles découvertes dans la station paléolithique de Mézine (Ukraine) Congr. Intern. d'Anthropol. et d'Archéol. préhist, 1912.

Boris Volkov, translator of Bidpai. 'Stephanit i Ikhnilat,' from the French version of C. Bouton; edited by Th. I. Bulgakov; St. Petersburg, 1877.

CRIFFITH:

LAURANCE M. WULCKO. BINGLEY.-Sir Maurice Gruffydd, or Griffith, Knt., of Carradrumruske, now Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, one of the first Burgesses; also Sir Ralph Bingley, Knt., Co. Donegal, are both mentioned in Cal. State Papers, Ireland, 1606 and onward.

Can anyone give me any information concerning the Welsh ancestry, or the descendants of either? WM. LLOYD.

WILKINS FAMILY.-I shall be glad if
any reader can give information about
this yeoman family, who were at Church-
nineteenth century, and previously, it is
down during the eighteenth and half of the
believed, at Haresfield, both co. Gloucester.
H. C. W.

P. Blakeiana cannot help noting The
Seraph.' In the second volume the engraved
title is by William Blake and engraved by
Can any light be
the aforesaid P. Jones.
thrown on this adventitious personality?
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

JONES, ENGRAVER.-Collectors of

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WILLIAM EVANS, ENGRAVER.—This

artist engraved an 1807 8vo. edition of Boswell's Tour in the Hebrides with Dr. Johnson,' having Sir Joshua Reynolds's illustration. Can any reader state other books engraved by Evans, also where and when born, and year of demise. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

"STEW HOUSES": "HOT HOUSES."-I am trying to trace references to bathing in England. I find in the National Geographical Magazine for May, 1926, in the article on London from a 'Bus Top,' the following:-Sir William Walworth, once Mayor of London, owned stew houses in Bankside, that being the euphonious early Eng

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lish name for bath houses. Is this correct?

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There is also a reference in Pepys's Diary, Feb. 21, 1663-4: My wife being very busy in going with her woman to a hot house to bathe herself."

To what does "hot house" refer? Were there public baths in London after the Restoration, or were these Turkish baths? I shall be much obliged for any information on the subject.

NEST SIMMONDS.

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MONSIEUR BLONDIN. (cl. 442; cli. 15.)

BLONDIN was born at St. Omer Pas de

Calais on 28 Feb., 1824, his father, an old soldier in Napoleon's army, dying before his His first public son was nine years old. appearance, at the age of four, exhibited such extraordinary nerve and courage that he was placed in L'Ecole de Gymnase at Lyons, and soon became a leading feature at the French theatres. Coming to America in 1855 he spent three years with the famous Ravel family.

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for the first time, being On June 3, 1859, he crossed Niagara Falls "killed" and "buried by some of his rivals (Cassell's Family Mag., 1896, pp. 55-63), going over again six times in that year, and carrying and on Sept. 14, 1860, in the presence of the across on his back in July, 1860, Prince of Wales (Golden Penny, Mar. 13, 1897, p. 257). The practice of being carried across the rope by Blondin became quite fashionable, a fee of £5 and advance bookings being required.

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His first appearance in England was at the Crystal Palace on June 1, 1861. While here he made twenty-six ascents in four months, besides appearing elsewhere. the Palace he introduced his bicycle trick (Illustrated Times, June 8, 1861, and Examiner, June 22). His first appearance in London was at St. James's Hall on Nov. 18, 1862; another appearance was at Saunder's Assembly Rooms, 4, Portsmouth Street, Clare Market. The bill for Wednesday, October 23, of that year is in my

The same lines appear, with differences, in collection. the Memoir of Jane Austen':

To gallop all the country over,
The last night's partner to behold,
And humbly, etc.

I have not been able to trace the original,
and should be glad of assistance.

FREDK. PAGE.

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At the Zoological Gardens, Liverpool, a lion "Tom Sayers was wheeled across. Blondin lost his savings by an unlucky speculation in the wine trade, and late in life he returned to his profession, appearing at the World's Fair, Agricultural Hall, in 1893. I remember him at Hengler's Circus, Dublin, in the early 'nineties.

He lived for some years at Niagara Villa, Finchley Road, St. John's Wood, moving to Niagara House, South Ealing, where he I shall be glad to died February, 1897. have the inscription on his grave. His medals, decorations, and other relics were sold by Debenham, Storr and Sons, in April, 1903, and Sotheby in November, 1906.

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